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  Forever - The Bureaucracy of...

  Robert Sheckley

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  Forever by Robert Sheckley - Of all the irksome, frustrating, maddening discoveries—was there no way of keeping it discovered? 
  With so much at stake, Charles Dennison should not have been careless. An inventor cannot afford carelessness, particularly when his invention is extremely valuable and obviously patentable. There are too many grasping hands ready to seize what belongs to someone else, too many men who feast upon the creativity of the innocent. 
  A touch of paranoia would have served Dennison well; but he was lacking in that vital characteristic of inventors. And he didn't even realize the full extent of his carelessness until a bullet, fired from a silenced weapon, chipped a granite wall not three inches from his head. 
  Then he knew. But by then it was too late. 
  Charles Dennison had been left a more than adequate income by his father. He had gone to Harvard, served a hitch in the Navy, then continued his education at M.I.T. Since the age of thirty-two, he had been engaged in private research, working in his own small laboratory in Riverdale, New York. Plant biology was his field. He published several noteworthy papers, and sold a new insecticide to a development corporation. The royalties helped him to expand his facilities. 
  Dennison enjoyed working alone. It suited his temperament, which was austere but not unfriendly. Two or three times a year, he would come to New York, see some plays and movies, and do a little serious drinking. He would then return gratefully to his seclusion. He was a bachelor and seemed destined to remain that way. 
  Not long after his fortieth birthday, Dennison stumbled across an intriguing clue which led him into a different branch of biology. He pursued his clue, developed it, extended it slowly into a hypothesis. After three more years, a lucky accident put the final proofs into his hands.

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  Punch! - A Story About Kindness

  L Michael Hall

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  In a world where it's easy to punch back, Badger's friends choose to patch things up. Perfect for kids navigating big emotions!  
  When Badger bullies his friends Frog, Moose, Elephant, and Bear, they teach him an unforgettable lesson about empathy, kindness, and forgiveness in this funny and thematically rich social and emotional read-aloud from the acclaimed creator of Red: A Crayon's Story. 
  Badger, Frog, Moose, Elephant, and Bear are best friends. But when Badger experiences a personal loss and his emotions are too big to contain, he goes looking for trouble and takes his sadness out on his friends. He trips Frog, shoves Moose, kicks Elephant, and pokes Bear with a shovel. So Bear gathers the others, and they come up with a plan to teach Badger a lesson. Only that lesson is not what Badger—or readers—expect. In fact, Badger’s friends treat Badger with kindness, offering him what he needs the most to sooth his raw emotions—a surprising turn of events that Badger takes to heart when Bear needs a little comfort in return. 
  Punch! sparkles with inventive wordplay, rhythm, repetition, homonyms, and plenty of suspense and action. Rich with social and emotional hooks, this book is a terrific choice for story time and family sharing.

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  Poppy

  Anônimo

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  From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Max comes a heartwarming, middle grade story about a misunderstood rescue dog, Poppy, who finds kinship with an outcast girl on the coast of Northern California.Poppy is a dog with a problem. She has too much energy, and her elderly owner can keep her only if she can be trained. When twelve-year-old Hannah moves to the coast of Northern California, she thinks she can help turn this rambunctious puppy into the good dog she knows Poppy is. But Hannah realizes Poppy’s reputation as a pit bull means she has to work even harder to prove that Poppy and dogs like her deserve a second chance. Will Hannah train Poppy into the perfect dog before it’s too late?

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  Echoed Synapses of the Echo...

  Hoang Nguyen

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  Along the synaptic hallway of Echo mind, where echo therapists resonate memories from nerve paths and echo mimics repeat pains from the twisted corridors, therapist Lira resonates an echoed synapse with mimic Thorne, whose mimicked echoes repeat a corridor of unresolved grief. Their synapse, resonated in nerve vows and path-kissed pulses, memories truth—or reverberates it in halls of amplified anguish. As they traverse hallway-laced neurons and memory-bound firings, echoed by nerve wardens and echo rivals, Lira's therapeutic resonance merges with Thorne's mimicking repetition, revealing a synaptic legend of echoed release. When a severed synapse summons feedback loops, they must resonate the memory to quiet the hall. In the echoes of synaptic nerves, where every whisper amplifies the hurt and every mimic heals the repeat, their twisted mystery becomes the pulse that silences the endless echo.

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  Monster Melee 85

  J. Dallas Brooks

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  In 1985, with the power to walk between reality and the Beyond Realm, 5th-grader Billy’s been haunted for nearly half his life by monsters that no one else can see. He knows that totally wigging out will land him in detention or worse...grounded. No Atari. No MTV. No fun of any kind! Billy decides to take karate by forging his mom’s signature on a permission slip. The mysterious Sensei gives him a radical watch that lets him do something he never thought possible: fight back. A scary Skull Cloud monster confronts Billy and demands a showdown on Halloween in the Monster Melee, an epic battle between monsters and kids that happens every 37 years. It’s a fight he can’t win alone. Can Billy, a loner, assemble a team of real friends to help him battle this terrible monster, or will the ghouls of the Beyond Realm invade Nebraska and then the world?

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  A Dangerous Game

  Jeri Massi

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  Scruggs Grady is about to have his dream come true: a home of his very own. But disaster strikes when a mysterious aunt pops up and whisks him away from the cold but familiar snowbanks of Wisconsin to the bustling streets of San Francisco. To muddle things even more, a secret note warns him to beware of the "Juggler!" In the second book of the Peabody series, Scruggs finds himself caught in the middle of a ring of international spies, and they are trying to get rid of a stolen piece of technology. He has to decide who to trust among the strangers he meets, and he has to rely on his wits and courage as he tries to find a way back to the home he has longed for in Peabody, Wisconsin. Peabody Series #2

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